Russian minister Sergey Lavrov emphasised that Russia's commitment to national interests and the protection of ethnic Russians in Crimea, Donbass, and Novorossiya came at a cost.

Russia warned the US of hypocrisy after the US Navy destroyed six alleged drug-running vessels in the Caribbean.

During a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday 20 October, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha briefed his European counterparts on the results of the meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States and called for increased pressure on Russia.

Spanish NATO jets were scrambled after two Russian aircraft reportedly violated Lithuanian airspace, escalating tensions amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

DARA MASSICOT is a Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was previously a Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation and a Senior Analyst at the Department of Defense.

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, during a phone call with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, discussed bilateral relations and the strategic partnership between the two friendly countries.

As a Ukrainian, I’ve seen firsthand how Russia has learned to emulate American soft power for authoritarian ends.

JOSHUA YAFFA is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the inaugural Writer in Residence at Bard College Berlin. He is the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia.

Five people were killed in the attacks as the military targeted suspected trafficking in an area where large amounts of cocaine typically move.